Real estate investing is considered a good way to diversify a portfolio because not only has real estate itself shown its resilience through all kinds of market conditions, but it gives you the feeling of actually owning something. It’s real.
There are lots of ways to buy real estate in the stock market too, including in the form of the 225 or so publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs). About 145 million Americans own REIT shares, and REITs themselves own more than 503,000 real estate assets across the country, according to the Nareit trade group.
These three REITs are rolling along, besting the big index year to date.
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